Andrew Krivak is an award-winning writer whose books include The Bear, a Banff Mountain Book Competition winner, Massachusetts Book Awards winner, and National Endowment for the Arts Big Read selection, as well as the freestanding novels of the Dardan Trilogy: The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses, a Library Journal “Best Book of the Year” and Indie Next List for Reading Groups selection. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.